Example sentences of "and [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When bleeding is a steady ooze , it can often be stopped by injections of dilute adrenaline ( 1 in 10000 ) , and this also facilitates completion of the procedure and thereby drainage of the duct . |
| 2 | Hip fractures are potentially life threatening ( they result in 40 premature deaths a day ) , while crushed spinal vertebrae may lead to back pain , loss of height and mobility , and eventually curvature of the spine . |
| 3 | An irreducible hernia may strangulate , i.e. the contents of the sac of the hernia may be constricted so that the circulation is cut off thus leading to gangrene and eventually perforation of the bowel ( a surgical emergency ) . |
| 4 | The grammar of English is carried over into the signing and presumably evaluation of the adequacy of BSL is based on the ease with which it can be fitted to this English format . |
| 5 | The difference , of course , is that borrowers from banks B , C … n are paying clients of bank A and so part of the increase in money supply will appear in bank A's deposits . |
| 6 | As they were forced to respond to the pressure for constitutional change the established interests saw a glint of light at the end of the political tunnel and came to entertain the hope that if the middle classes were allowed a subordinate share of power then they just might turn from being poachers to gamekeepers of the system and so side with the aristocracy in helping to keep the working classes in order . |
| 7 | Whenever a limb abnormality involves truncation , one can be pretty sure that this is due to damage to the ridge and so loss of the progress zone . |
| 8 | It is the present role and perhaps dominance of the tutor which is most usefully challenged . |
| 9 | Palmerston , with the longest speech of the debate , started by saying that Members would not be committed by the present vote to any style , as nothing would be decided until next session , and attacked Manners for approving ‘ the erection of so frightful a building ’ , involving expenses and perhaps disappointment to the architect without consulting the House . |
| 10 | The objective must be to keep it simple , yet allow adjustment for up and down inclination of the camera and rotary motion . |
| 11 | A previous study involving ferry passengers showed that it was the up and down movement of the ferry , not the side to side motion , that caused motion sickness . |
| 12 | The upwards and outwards inclination of the kite either side of centre is what provides lateral stability . |
| 13 | The Cockcroft Committee 's recommendation relating to graduated tests is stated in para 553 of the report : a study should be commissioned to consider whether it is possible to devise a means of providing evidence of achievement in mathematics for lower-attaining pupils in ways which will support , and not conflict with the provision of suitable mathematics courses in schools . |
| 14 | In a properly organized political community the state exists for society and not society for the state ; yet , however socially advanced a people may be , the society which it constitutes made up of families , clubs , churches , trade unions , etc. — is not to be trusted to maintain itself without the ultimate arbitrament of force . |
| 15 | the Sabbath was made for the sake of man and not man for the Sabbath ( Mark 2:27 ) . |
| 16 | She remembered a little of the acrimony , of the mounting bitterness within the house , of their winter of discontent , which was so much part of and not part of the winter outside , and the miners ' strike . |
| 17 | Cambridge is a beautiful place , and although ours was a training college and not part of the University as it is now , many University societies were open to us . |
| 18 | In McGregor v Adcock 51 TC 692 , decided in 1977 , a 70 year old farmer sold five of his 35 acres for development , and the Court held that there had been a sale of assets of the business and not part of the business , thus denying retirement relief . |
| 19 | That when one approaches the village , in particular along the A Nineteen , which is the only public approach from the north , the objection sites read as part of the village and not part of the countryside . |
| 20 | There is no doubt that dishonest or surreptitious acquisition of information is usually overwhelming evidence that information was confidential and not part of the defendant 's skill and knowledge . |
| 21 | His brand of conservatism was more cerebral than Wellington 's temperamental and instinctive belief in hierarchy , although , as with all of us , it was emotion and not reason at the bottom of it in the end . |
| 22 | These days they tend to think that , something you should save , and not waste in the garden . |
| 23 | The problem in terms purely of resourcing is if , if one does n't look after the not so seriously mentally ill they very rapidly c become the very seriously mentally ill with considerable financial resourcing problems and also enormous manpower problems because they do then tend to need twenty four hour close supervision nursing and not care in the community which can be done on a part-time basis and the implications of that are frightening . |
| 24 | It was also claimed that some people in the media held shares in the mining companies and thus coverage of the exploration could be uncritical . |
| 25 | The Slovak National Council on June 23 elected Ivan Gasparovic as its chair and thus chair of the Council 's presidium which acted as a republican presidency ( there being no Slovak President ) . |
| 26 | On April 28th Bill Clinton appointed Lee Brown , a former policeman , as America 's new ‘ drug tsar ’ , and thus leader of the world 's toughest prohibition programme ( see page 63 ) . |
| 27 | If the father wished there to be a residence order and thus revocation of the care order it was , of course , necessary for him to have that order from the justices . |
| 28 | Elsewhere in the country , seats were more marginal , defeat somewhat more likely , and thus power in the Congress less easily retained . |
| 29 | So they started their ministry off together , and I think it 's something quite special to me and to recognise that we have sent three people off on a journey and three people , two here , have come to the end of a journey and just part of the journey and are beginning to discover that will be discovered in the life of the three human beings , human beings |
| 30 | This group 's only sin is their wry self-consciousness which falls smugly short of arrant narcissism ; the fey , running commentary implicit in their song-titles ( ‘ Rent ’ , ‘ Shopping ’ , ‘ Suburbia ’ , ‘ Opportunities [ Let's Make Lots of Money ] ’ ) signifies detachment , and finally alienation From the allure , the lush materiality of pop . |